Palo Alto

By the Daily Post staff A man opened the door of a woman’s car and grabbed her purse from the passenger’s seat of her car parked near Greer Park while […]

By the Daily Post staff 11:05 p.m. Power is out to about 2,000 Palo Alto residents at this hour. High winds have downed trees that have brought power lines along […]

By the Daily Post staff The National Weather Service says Palo Alto will be under a flood watch on Wednesday (Jan. 4) and Thursday, when there’s a 100% chance of […]

By the Daily Post staff • Creek flood monitors fail; • Palo Alto runs out of sandbags; • Water flow on San Francisquito Creek exceeds 1998 flood UPDATE, 5:47 p.m. […]

By the Daily Post staff 9 p.m. — The number of Palo Alto electric customers without power continued to dwindle into the night. Crews restored power to most customers in […]

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Christmas night after he stole a car in downtown Mountain View that had two children inside, police said. A woman called Mountain View police […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight to build a fiber internet network that would compete with Comcast and AT&T. The city will do the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council agreed tonight (Dec. 19) to extend a contract with a company that has been underpaying janitors for more than four […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council welcomed a suggestion tonight (Dec. 12) to update and enforce the city’s ban on short-term rentals. A ban against […]

The former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, was arrested today (Dec. 12) in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government, U.S. and Bahamian authorities said. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto is planning how to use space at City Hall that will open up once police and fire administration […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A customer at the Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto recorded a Black Friday heist by two men, and the video shows the […]

By the Daily Post staff Police arrested a suspect today (Nov. 22) in a drive-by shooting of Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse at the Stanford Shopping Center. Zachary Michael Ginsberg, 32, of […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A man fired a gun into the front window of Fleming’s Steakhouse at the Stanford Shopping Center this afternoon (Nov. 21), and about 20 […]

A federal judge today (Nov. 18) sentenced Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes to 11 years and three months in prison, citing the need for investors in Silicon Valley startups […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer An entrepreneur who built one of the world’s top cryptocurrency companies and then saw it all come crashing down almost overnight was raised […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department’s officer-therapist team is no longer operating because the therapist left the job, Chief Andrew Binder said tonight (Nov. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department is finally taking it seriously when officers use profanity, independent police auditor Mike Gennaco told council tonight (Nov. […]